WALT DISNEY'S RAILROAD STORY The Small-Scale Fascinations That Led to a Full-Scale Kingdom

Language: English

Published by Pentrex ( 1998 ), Pasadena, CA, 1998

1563420090 / 9781563420092

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Large Quarto, 431 pages, maroon cloth, title-page bumped at fore-edge NOTE: 2D COPY IN 6DOUGL !! Trains fascinated Disney from his childhood. He had built a 1/8th size Carolwood Pacific Railroad to circle his property in Holmby Hills. Inspired, he then considered an adjoining theme park. Mrs. Disney contributed the Foreword, and various private episodes from their life together which eventually resulted in The Magic Kingdom. Broggie's father, Roger, helped Walt to create the railroad.

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Title
WALT DISNEY'S RAILROAD STORY The Small-Scale Fascinations That Led to a Full-Scale Kingdom
Author
BROGGIE, Michael; Lillian Bounds Disney
Publisher
Pentrex ( 1998 ), Pasadena, CA
Publication year
1998
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Near Fine
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fine
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Hardcover
Language
English
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1563420090
ISBN 13
9781563420092
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Second Edition.
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Joyce And Company, established 1975, works out of an office near Chicago's Loop. There are usually 15-20,000 books on-site and available for browsing. Mr. Joyce was a founding partner of the former Chicago Rare Book Center, of Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. Proprietor Tom Joyce appeared regularly as the book appraiser on "The Appraisal Fair", seen on Home And Garden Television, HGTV. We still do appraisals on a wide variety of subjects, from literature to history, fine books, children's, presses, theology, law, medicine, maps, autographs. These topics are reflected in our inventory, and much more, including Sherlockiana. In addition to regional institutions nearby Chicago and Illinois, we have been able to place rare materials with the American Antiquarian Society, The Library of Congress, The Bodleian Library, Harvard and Yale Universities, the Presidential Libraries of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, et cetera.

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